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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-12

The English government is resolved
upon the punishment of every person
who took part in the Woodford meeting
last month, at which the proclamation of
the lord-lieutenant forbidding the meet
ing was burned. \ large number of ar
rests have been made, among which is
member of parliament and secretary of
the lord mayor of Dublin. Mr.. Cox. a
member of parliament. charged with
having attended proclaimed meeting in
County Clare, did not answer the sum-
mons TO appear before court. and war
rant for his arrest is in the hands of the
police
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-12
COMMENT AND OPINION.
Rough on Rats.

Kansas City Times.
President Cleveland's Endorsement of
Lowering in Massachusetts, came too late
to arrest the panic among the mugwumps
caused by the announcement that Ben
Butler would support the Democratic
ticket Old Ben is a rough on rats to
nugWumDS.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-12
VIVA. Sparks Knows

LaN!'hfe JU1ThAl-
Sparks. the land commissioner. recent
" decided that Usage orange Is not a
tree. bat Secretarv Lamar saws If is q
tree. Peer Sparks, ne Goes not know q
tree. but he knows enough TO o. Demo
crai
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-12
Destiny Can Only Save Him.

s.. Paul UIobe-
There is bad blood between the states
OF Missouri and Kansas. During the
presidents visit to Kansas City a young
lady from the Kansas town of Winfield
went over to the presidential reception.
She was a likely looking girl, and the
president was 50 surprised to see pref
tv woman in Kansas City he took the
trouble 70 ask the young lady her name
the second time. The Kansas papers are
Growing over it good deal, and if the
incident doesn't cost Mr. Cleveland Mis-
souri's presidential vote. it VIII he be-
cause he has a child OF destiny.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-12
na Most CoupIete.

The Wichita EAGLE has put in a per
fecting press and stereotyping machine,
and now has the most complete news
paper office in Kansas. The EAGLE
reaches this place from twelve to twenty
four hours earlier than any other daily
containing the Associated press reports,
and il is meeting with deserved patron
age
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-11-12
FAMOUS!

The most perfect fitting and
largest stock OF tailor made suits,
overcoatS and trousers ever
brought to the city.
, 1887-11-16
sudden Chaneo in siIesia.

Winter has set in with unusual severity
all along the northern slopes of the Ries-
engebirge. The transition from summer
weather to harsh winter was most sudden.
Within twenty-four hours the thermome-
ter fell to some degrees below zero cent?
grade. According to usual arrangements
the telegraph service would be closed on
Sept. 80 in the higher parts of the range;
but the elements anticipated by several
days the official period. In a single night
the snowfall put an end to telegraphic
communication. Ice wreaths some inches
deep hung from the poles and even the
wires. Great destruction of appal atus
was the result; wires were broken down,
isolators broken, and even poles injured.
A fierce northwest wind also blew for
some hours, assisting the work Of de-
struction by ~overturning telegraph p >les.
At one end of the mountain telegraph
huts the operator and his family were
showed up for several hours and had to
be dug out. 1t is many years since there
has been such a severe and early begin
ming of winter in the district. -Bresla
Zeitung.
, 1887-11-16
Chain of Prairie Dog Towns.

There is a chain of prairie dog towns
along the Texas and Pacific road, begin
ming west of Abilene and extending
nearly to Big Springs. The little fellows
always climb upon their hills and squat
III their hind feet to watch the train go
by. Hunters tell me it is almost impossi-
BILE to kill one Of the dogs and get his
body, SO quickly does he dive into his
hole at the explosion Of a gun. Ere
quently, if fatally hit, the little turnover
falls dead into his earth domicil. Men
have tried to make them come out of
their burrows by pouring great quantities
Of water in at the mouth of the hole, but
they will not emerge even at that treat
mem Some of the villages cover five
acres of ground, and / think their terri
tory extends for 100 miles along my run
in Texas.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
, 1887-11-16

For the information of numismatists,
collectors of coins, coin dealers, ETC., Di-
rector of the United States Mint Kimball
has prepared a circular giving definitions
of technical terms used in mint regula-
tons, and other useful explanations of
coinage matters. A coin is said to be
proof" when it is specially struck by
hand press, instead of steam press, from
a polished planchet, and a proof set is
a complete set of proofs of current coins.
A pattern piece is an early specimen
of proof from a newly adopted coinage
die or dies. An impression in soft metal
to test an experimental die is called a
trial piece"
When a piece is struck from regular
dies OF experimental metal or alloy, or
from experimental dies with experiment
tai legends, devices or designs, it is de-
nominated an experimental piece
Trial and experimental pieces, struck for
mint purposes only, will not be issued,
circulated or sold. Pieces popularity
known as restrikes, false metal pieces
and metallic replicas, or copies, are pro-
hibited by the revised statutes. Proof
and pattern pieces are sold by the super
intendent of the mint. The superintend-
ent will furnish without charge q pat
tern piece to any incorporated numismatic
society in the United States. In such
cases, if the pattern be in gold or silver,
the value of the metal will be required.
Philadelphia Record.
, 1887-11-16

Uncle Tom, in the Shelby household,
had nothing to fear but that sudden loss
of wealth might work for him a change
of masters; but Uncle Tom of the tene-
ment has to fear his masters growing
rich; has to fear hat the tinkle of in
c~reasing ducats in his pocket will make
him rejoice in and increase the extor-
ton that thrives so well on tenants who
have forgotten to expect rights. The
southern Uncle Tom had his ways of
earning; of laying aside, if only penny
by penny. something. The northern
Uncle Tom never can save; there is not
enough from day to day to live even de-
Gently; and one break in a days work,
one hour of sickness in father, mother or
child leaves a gap that it seems as if never
again they could bridge over. They never
can ''catch up"
The southern Tom had his family per-
haps torn frcm his arms, never again TO
lay eyes on daughter or son. Think you
that the northern Tom can keep his
family about him7 AS the slave Eliza
clasped her boy to her breast and ran
away that she might not have to give
him up, so slips from the tenement house
every day some Eliza with a child in her
arms, not to keep him, but to give him
up, to lay him ir the crib at the founding
hospital, whence he will be taken by
others, to be known hereafter not as
johnny, but as "No. 90, 49," or to
give him to benevolent agents who will
find him a home in the west. Saddest
reflection of all is to think of the callous-
ness that misery produces. OF all the
pathetic stories you can tell Of Little Nell
or Oliver Twist, none so impresses me
with the horrors of abject poverty as
am impressed on hearing a mother, when
l tell her l am glad her sick baby is
better, say calmly: 'Lor', yes! Wsrn't
it a mercy it didn't diel It's just orful
to have children dyin' now, when it costs
SO high to bury 'em."-Alice Yelling
ton Rollins in The Forum.
, 1887-11-16
DON'T

let that cold of yours run on. You think
it is a little thing. But it may run into
catarrh. Or into pneumonia. Or con-
sumption.
Catarrh is disgusting. Pneumonia is
dangerous. Consumption is death itself.
The breathing apparatus must be kept
healthy and clear of all Instructions and
offensive matter. Otherwise there is
trouble ahead.
All the diseases OF these parts, head,
nose, throat, bronchial tubes and lungs,
can be delightfully."- and entirely cured by
the use of Boschee's German Syrup. Ii
you don't know this already, thousands
and thousands of people can tell you.
They have been cured by it, and know
how it is, themselves" Bottle only IS
cents. Ask any druggist.
, 1887-11-16


A pleasant little story is told of n for
mer Wheeling lady, who removed to
Texas some time since. In the city in
which she resides dinner parties became
very fashionable, and the society ladies
We'd with each other IN exhibiting the
finest chinaware until it became almost a
mania. The lady who gave the last din
ner attempted and generally succeeded in
outrivaling her predecessor in the way of
fine china, and the former Wheeling lady
determined to Guido them all; so when
her dinner party was announced the
society in hat place was all worked up
in anticipation of something grand.
The day came and the expected guests.
The usual chat and gossip preceded the
dinner, and then the guests were escorted
TO the dining room. OF course they were
all on the tiptoe OF expectancy and all
eyes Immediately turned to the table
when they entered the room. And what
a sight met their gaze! Ye gods! Where
were thep previous dinner parties2 There
stood a table in all its grandeur. An
ordinary table covered with n torn and
tattcred cloth, common wooden plates
with newspaper cuts pasted in them in
mock imitation of hand painted china.
An immense wooden Eowl stood in the
center of the table, out of which pro-
trudcd a common tin ladle, and every
thing vas of the most pristine character.
The break was loo good, and the guests
were all compelled to acknowledge that
they had all been outdone. But they sat
dowh.-and then they were served with
one of the most elegant and elaborate
dinners it had ever been their good for
tune to partake of. But that completely
knocked out the fine china g and
Mrs. WIS party was the talk of the town
for many days. Bright IDEA, wasn't it?
Wheeling Register.
, 1887-11-16
Professor Bells Scientific Library.

Professor Bell has nearly completed the
repairs upon his house made necessary by
the fire which nearly destroyed it last
winter. Professor Bell has very little oc-
casion to worry over such a misfortune
from a financial standpoint. His vito
has $40, 600. 600 of Bell Telephone stock,
and her father has as many more, which
constitute about two-thirds of the stock
of the company. Probably the family
will never come to want. But Professor
Bell is very much distressed by the burn
ing of his house. Next to the loss of his
wife or children, probably nothing could
have disturbed him SO much. 1t was not
on account of the value of the house, al
though it was said to be worth $3.50, 900,
but it was because his library was
burned. There are not many thousands
of books in Professor Bells library. The
number is said to be somewhere near 10,-
600 volumes. But probably there never
was a better private scientific library col
lected.
Professor Bell employed two of the best
bookbinders to be had in New York city,
one of them an old and experienced
English workman, and the other one of
the best German bookbinders in this
country. These two men worked for
several months in restoring the valuable
books to something like their original
condition. Many of them were burned.
Most of them were badly charred and
smoked, and all of them were soaked
with water from the fire engines. Their
work wa a most laborious and weari-
some one. Thousands of books were
unstitched, each page pressed carefully,
and the volume again bound, cut and
finished. Professor Bell paid these men
each $40 a day during the time they
were at work. He nov considers that his
library is restored to very nearly its con-
dition before the fire.-New York Sun.
, 1887-11-16
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, 1887-11-16
VERC0AT y

Our display of Overcoats this season is
larger and more varied than ever. We
can supply you with a light weight coat
for cool evenings for S.. 90, $1,000, $1,000
and up to $500. We have medium
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, 1887-11-16

A Philadelphia lady says that the Bos-
ton folks have dropped Browning and
Shelley and the like, and nave taken up
Russian literature. "You are expected
to know" she says, ''all about Tolstoi,
Gogol, Stepniak, and other political and
literary scholars. Your table must be
strewn with Photographic views of every
place of note in Moscow, st. Petersburg.
My friend is sick trying to keep abreast
with all this. She hasn't much mind,
and I'm afraid she'll lose the little she
has. New York Sun.
, 1887-11-16

In the negotiations made some years
ago by the English government for a loan
of $50, 900, 900 the successful contractors
were the Messrs. Rothschild. In paying
the first deposit toward this amount to
the government the check they drew
was for the sum of &C. 900, 900. This
was probably the largest check ever
drawn by a private banking house.-De-
troit Free Press.
, 1887-11-16

The D~enbighshire police went out to
waylay a gang of notorious poachers,
but were surprised to see them return
empty handed. Shortly afterwards three
Welsh damsels followed with a suspi-
cious display of hustle, which, on investi-
cation, turned out to be due to the pres
ence of twenty-seven rabbits and two
long lengths of rabbit netting.-Chicago
Herald.
, 1887-11-16
very Remarkable Recovery.

Mr.. Geo. V. Willing, of Manchester,
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rative powers. Only fifty cents a bottle
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, 1887-11-16
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, 1887-11-16

The latest ''fad' is the interest at
tached to the finding Of an old button
shoe. We were told, with great SINGER
ity, that if a young girl on finding one
would count the buttons remaining on it
she would be able to tell exactly the num-
Der of years which would elapse before
her marriage, each button representing
one year. 1t is looked upon as n great
piece of misfortune (by the credulous) to
find a shoe minus buttons. Chicago
News.
, 1887-11-16
IT WoN'T BAKE BREAD.-In 9th,

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, 1887-11-16
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, 1887-11-16

Pennsylvania has more postofices than
any other state in the Union, 4,1l6.
New York has 3,249.
, 1887-11-16
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, 1887-11-16

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, 1887-11-16

An elegant line of silk and worsted
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very low. l. Greentree, the clothier.
, 1887-11-16

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, 1887-11-16
Three P~ecuIiarities

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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-06-30
Kansas Railroads.

The State Board of Railroad Asses
sors has completed its work and rem
dered report which was published in
the EMPoRIA DAILY News few days
ago. The result shows Il very large
and gratifying increase in the number
of miles of road and in the assessed
value in the railways in Kansas. The
Atchison Champion has been investi-
eating the report and sums up its find
ings as follows:
These assessments are made, it will
be remembered, for the year ending
March / 1887. At that date, in 1886,
there were 4 ,522.33 miles of railway in
Kansas, assessed at a total of $50 ,453 !,
776. On the first of March, 1887, the
total length of Kansas railways was
6 ,20S.95 miles, an increase of l ,6S6.62
miles during the year. The assessed
value of the roads, for 1897, is S4l ,53S, )
9O4, an increase over the preceding
year, of So, 0S5, l2S.
In 1886 railroad property was assess
ed in only Seventy-three organized
counties; for the current year, assess
ments are made in eighty-two organ
lied counties. The counties added tC
the list of those having railways fol-
assessment are Chautauqua, Gray
Cove, Kearney, Lincoln, Ness, Pratt
Rush and Stafford.
Probably six or seven hundred miles
of railway have been built in Kansas
since the first of March last, but the
new mileage is not of course included
in the assessment for this year. The
total length of the railways of thu
state is now fully $500 miles, and i
will probably exceed 800 miles -befor'
the close of the year 1887.